Hybrid sovereignty in world politics
- ISBN: 9781009204477
- Editorial: Cambridge University Press
- Fecha de la edición: 2024
- Lugar de la edición: Cambridge . Reino Unido
- Colección: Cambridge Studies in International Relations
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 24 cm
- Nº Pág.: 307
- Idiomas: Inglés
The idea of 'hybrid sovereignty' describes overlapping relations between public and private actors in important areas of global power, such as contractors fighting international wars, corporations regulating global markets, or governments collaborating with nongovernmental entities to influence foreign elections. This innovative study shows that these connections - sometimes hidden and often poorly understood - underpin the global order, in which power flows without regard to public and private boundaries. Drawing on extensive original archival research, Swati Srivastava reveals the little-known stories of how this hybrid power operated at some of the most important turning points in world history: spreading the British empire, founding the United States, establishing free trade, realizing transnational human rights, and conducting twenty-first century wars. In order to sustain meaningful dialogues about the future of global power and political authority, it is crucial that we begin to understand how hybrid sovereignty emerged and continues to shape international relations.
Introduction
A Foundational Myth
The Argument
Plan of the Book
1 Hybrid Sovereignty in International Theory
Idealized Sovereignty
Conceptualizing Idealized Sovereignty in Early Modern Thought
Experimenting with Idealized Sovereignty in the Founding of America
Idealized Sovereignty in IR
Lived Sovereignty
Evolution in Sovereign Functions
Conceptualizing Lived Sovereignty
Lived Sovereignty in IR Hybrid Sovereignty
Conclusion
2 Ideal-Types of Public/Private Hybridity
Public/Private Hybridity in Global Governance
Did the Medieval Law Merchant Exist?
The Logic of Ideal-Types
Ideal-Types of Public/Private Hybridity
Research Design
Methodology
Cases
Conclusion
3 Hybrid Sovereign Empire in the English East India Company
Seeing Like a Company-State
Emergence of Sovereign Competence in the Company
First Transformation: EIC Cycling through Ideal-Types of Public/Private Hybridity
Contractual Hybridity
Institutional Hybridity
Shadow Hybridity Second Transformation: Company Sovereignty Shifts from Privilege to Right
Emerging Desires for Self-Possessed Company Sovereignty
Establishing Self-Possessed Company Sovereignty
Clashes of Idealized and Lived Sovereignty in EIC's Corporate Empire on Trial
Conclusion
4 Contracting American Wars through Blackwater
Sovereignty under Contract
The Post-9/11 Contractor Force
Blackwater in American Total Force
Sovereign Dilemmas in Contractual Hybridity
Weber and the Monopoly over Legitimate Use of Force
Distributed Accountability Politics of Distributed Accountability
Constructing "Inherently Governmental"
The Bureaucratic State of American Contracting
Defining Inherently Governmental
Conclusion
5 Institutionalizing Markets through the International Chamber of Commerce
Limiting Corporate Responsibility
Delegitimizing NGOs
The Global Compact
Norms and Guiding Principles on Corporate Responsibility for Human Rights
Agenda-Setting on Trade and Investment
Early Lessons with the ITO
Working with the GATT
Failing Upward with the MAI
"Self-Governance" in Rulemaking Policy Commissions and Standards
Constructing Commercial Crime
Sovereign Dilemmas in Institutional Hybridity
Championing "Palm Tree Justice" in International Arbitration
Politics of Exclusivity in Arbitration
Conclusion
6 Shadowing for Human Rights through Amnesty International
Building a Global Polity
Getting Its Foot in the Door
Campaign for the Abolition of Torture
Imposing American Responsibility
Solidifying the Polity in Cold War Politics
Projecting Moral Purity
Impartial Research Expertise
Government Independence
